Section 1
A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars.
Astrolabe
The Vikings sailed this far south along the US coast.
New England
This group forced the Vikings to leave Vinland (in Canada) after a few years.
Native Americans
This was the southern tip of Africa where wind blew Dias's ship around it.
the Cape of Good Hope
This is the day Columbus' 3 ships set sail for an expedition across the Atlantic on behalf of Spain.
August 3, 1492
In 1493 this Spanish pope drew a Line of Demarcation that divided the Atlantic Ocean and said that only Spain could claim land west of it.
Pope Alexander VI
This is when Columbus' crew spotted land for the first time since coming from the Canary Islands. It was the Bahamas and he called it San Salvador.
October 12, 1492
He sailed first to the Canary Islands before landing on San Salvador and then Hispaniola on behalf of Spain.
Christopher Columbus
He led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope and then reached the Indian port of Calicut in 1498.
Vasco da Gama
This is the reason Europeans wanted to explore the world and wanted to find their own sea route to Asia.
Asian spices
This is the year Vasco de Gama left Portugal on a trip to Asia. 1 year later he would arrive at Calicut, India.
1497
These were the first Europeans to make contact with North America.
Vikings
This is the number of miles Magellan's crew had to sail to circumnavigate the world.
40,000
The Spanish and Portuguese leaders signed this document that moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles further west.
Treaty of Tordesillas
This is when Magellan, a Portuguese navigator began his expedition down the South American coast and around the world.
1519
Taino
Longship
Atlantic slave trade
He was a Portuguese leader make exploration for the country dominant. He built an observatory and navigation school, paid for expeditions to African west coast.
Prince Henry the Navigator
This country was the leader in world exploration in the 1400s.
Portugal
This is when Amerigo Vespucci led a Spanish fleet to the coast of South America.
1501
These rulers of Spain paid for Columbus's expedition in exchange for him bringing back valuable items and claiming land for Spain.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
This is the distance in miles that the Treaty of Tordesillas moved the Line of Demarcation west.
800
This was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases and goods between Europeans and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
An Indian port where Vasco de Gama landed and met Muslim traders.
Calicut
This Viking sailed from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to Labrador Peninsula, Canada, to Newfoundland to Vinland.
Leif Eriksson
These were traders in Calicut, India who surprised Vasco de Gama when he arrived by speaking Portuguese
Muslims
This is the year Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias left Portugal, traveled southward along the African coast, and rounded the southern tip of Africa.
1488
He was a Portuguese navigator who led a Spanish fleet to sail down east coast of South America, across Pacific and to the Philippines where he was killed. His crew continued and because first to circumnavigate the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
This explorer led a Spanish fleet in 1501 to the coast of South America which he knew was not Asia and called it the "New World". A German mapmaker named the South and North America continents in his honor.
Amerigo Vespucci
These were Columbus' ships. 2 were caravels and 1 was the larger ship.
The Niña and the Pinta, and the Santa María
This is when Vasco Nunez de Balboa left a Spanish settlement in Panama and reached a mountain to see the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1513
In 1488 he led an expedition from Portugal south along African coast, and around the southern tip of Africa. His ship grew low in supplies and he had to turn around.
Bartolomeu Dias
This location is known as the Cape of Good Hope. Strong winds blew Dias' ship around this dangerous tip.
Southern tip of Africa
These were Portuguese ships that were lighter, smaller with triangular sails and rudders in the back for better steering.
Caravels
Lief Erikson established this Viking settlement along the Canadian coast.
Vinland
An island in the Bahamas where Columbus landed which he thought was Asia. Means "Holy Savior".
San Salvador
This mean to go all of the way around the world. Magellan's crew was the first to do it.
Circumnavigate
This Spanish explorer in Panama led an expedition through jungles and swamps to the top of a mountain so he could see the Pacific ocean for the first time.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
This was a line dividing the Atlantic Ocean drawn by Pope Alexander VI. Spain could claim all land west of the land, Portugal could claim all land east of the line.
Line of Demarcation